Example sentences of "he had set " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 2 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 3 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 4 | He had set his mark on them . |
| 5 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 6 | Gathering the soldiers around him , the Commanding Officer explained what he had set out to achieve two weeks ago . |
| 7 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 8 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |
| 9 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 10 | He had set a forester on the road between Stamford and Casterton bridges , who exacted four pence for cheminage from every cart carrying wood or timber from Lincolnshire to Stamford , contrary to custom and the Charter of the Forest . |
| 11 | Cotton 's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself . |
| 12 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 13 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 14 | He had set the brake on the reel at two hundred kilos , leaving a hundred as insurance against the line parting . |
| 15 | He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain . |
| 16 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 17 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 18 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 19 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 20 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 21 | The worry was how best to tell her father — he had set his heart on her following in his footsteps — when a coronary had spared them both . |
| 22 | He ran up the ramp , the sergeant liftmaster activating the hydraulics even before he had set loot on it . |
| 23 | He returned to England on Edouard 's new plane with fifteen excellent Jack Yeats oils ; Edouard returned secure in the knowledge that he had a winner for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , the prime race in the French racing calendar and the one he had set his heart on winning . |
| 24 | By the early 1980s , he had set up his own company , Albrite . |
| 25 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 26 | He had set the pattern for the modern missionary movement but his own assessment of himself was typically modest : ‘ I can plod . |
| 27 | ‘ Nay , 't is too risky , ’ said Edward , making it clear none the less that he had set aside his former objections . |
| 28 | The Fellowship on which he had set his heart was not available , but his professor , who knew the circumstances , recommended him for a lectureship at London University College . |
| 29 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 30 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |